Amy Eaton
Chicago, IL
Nonfiction
Amy Eaton is a writer, Live Lit performer, director and arts educator from Chicago. Her work has been published in Hippocampus Magazine, Mulberry Literary, The Coachella Review and Napalm Health Spa. She has performed with Write Club Chicago, MissSpoken, Tellin' Tales Theater, Stoop Style Stories, Louder Than A Mom, and Based On A True Story among others. Amy is a four time presenter at HippoCamp: A Conference for Creative Nonfiction and a finalist for the 2023 Daisy Pettles Women's Writing Contest. She was featured on the podcast WTFRU? After years of working with young people through organizations like Urban Gateways and Gallery 37, in 2005 Amy founded Mudlark Theater Company with the mission of meeting young people as artists rather than students. She served as Artistic Director till 2010.